Husking-glove



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BREDE H. HAGEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HUSKlNG-GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 259,683, dated June 20,1882.

Application filed September 24, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BREDE H. HAGEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Husking-Gloves; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of whichFigure 1 is a front view of my device; Fig. 2, a rear view of the same,showing the means for adjusting it to hands of different sizes; andFigs. 3 and 4, detail views.

The object of my invention is to render the husking-glove adjustable togreater and narrower widths upon the husking-pin itself, as well as atthe back; also, to overcome all tendency of the glove to turn upon thefingers of the operator in husking; and, furthermore, by

the peculiar construction of the parts to obtain more than the ordinarydegree of effectiveness at the smallest possible cost.

My invention consists, first, in securing the husking-pin near itspronged end rigidly to the face of the glove, and attaching it elsewhereby means of guides secured to the face of .the glove and extending overthe husking-pin, and adapted to slide thereon, though not freely,

and permit the puckerin g of the leather; and,-

secondly,in various details of construction and combinations of parts,all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, A is a fingerless glove, provided with a thumb, B. Theglove is open longitudinally at its back, and is provided with straps oand buckles u to enlarge or contract it, as circumstances may require.

0 is the husking-pin or stripper, which -I.

prefer to make of wire, bent to the form of a U, with its outer endssharpened and bent inward,'all as clearly represented in Fig. 3. Thestripper is secured in place across the face of the glove by means ofbands 25 and t, formed of plates of metal (though strips of leathermight be used instead) doubled upon themselves aroundthe stripper, andsecured between the branches thereof to the face of the glove by meansof rivets s. The band t, near the prongs, binds the stripper so tightlyas to attach it rigidly to the glove at this point;

but the bands t are made to encompass it somewhat, whereby they mayeasily be slid pointed to form the prongs, and the device is secured tothe face of the thumb by means of rivets 8, one in each outside bend ofthe wire, and a band,t encompassing the parallel parts of the wire asthe band t encompasses the husking-pin, and in like manner riveted tothe leather.

The stays for'thefingers are formed of leather straps 4, each riveted atone end to the face of the glove on its inner surface, in line with theoutermost strap, 11, as shown, and at its other end passing through thebuckle of the said strap. I prefer to employ two such stays.

It is obvious that so far as the feature of adjustability is concerned,a huskin g-pin or stripper of the ordinary construction-that is, in theform of a single bar with prongs at the endsecured near its pronged endrigidly to the glove, and held to the same elsewhere by one or moresliding guides thereon, would be in every sense the equivalent of thecorrespondingfeature in my device; also, that means other than the bandif and rivet may be used for securing the stripper, near its prongedend, to the glove. In other words, this part of my invention is intendedto include strippers or husking-pins ofwhatsoeverconstruction, firmlysecured. near their pronged ends to the face of the glove, and heldthereto elsewhere by one or more guides sliding upon them and fixed tothe face of the glove.

It is also obvious that the finger-straps 1 may be secured to the backof the glove otherwise than by the buckle u, though the latter method isthe one much to be preferred.

If it is preferred to have only one prong to the husking-pin, the othermay be curved backward in such manner as to extend partlyaround theforefinger of the operator, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. -i.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a bushing-glove, a pointed stripper extendingacross the face of the glove and rigidly secured thereto near thepointed end of the stripper, and one or more guides fixed to the face ofthe glove between the point of rigid attachment and the butt-end of thestripper, holding the said stripper t0 the face of the glove, andadapted to slide on the stripper, though not freely, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a hashing-glove, the U-shaped stripper (J, havinginweirdly-curved points, band I, secured to the face of the glove andtightly inclosing the stripper near its sharpened end, and one or morebands, 25, s:-

the face of the thumb at the outside bonds of 0 the wire, and also atthe parallel parts, substantially as described.

4. A bushing-pin formed of wire bent to the shape of a U, and having itsends pointed and curved to form prongs, substantially as de- 5 scribed.

BREDE H. HAGEN. In presence of- 1. O. DYRENFORTH, W11. H. DYRENFORTII.

